Stelios Lambros

Pursued permanent repatriation to the U.S. in 2021 and 2023; encountered underemployment challenges related to the pandemic recession and career verification obstacles due to the lack of relevant U.S.A.-based employment history.

• - [U.S.A.] Restaurant and ridesharing roles with IHOP, Lyft, Waffle House, DoorDash and smaller restaurants
• - [Greece] Maintained technical skills and learning through self-study, personal programming tasks, computer hardware maintenance and short-term work with previous employers
• - Small tasks and light reading on: Java 11-25, Spring Boot 3.x, dotNET 8-9, IKVM, Rust, and C23. GNU/Linux distributions: Arch (Manjaro), Debian 13, Ubuntu 24-25, Fedora 40-41

Developed a Spring Boot service to monitor changes in a legacy sports betting database and replicate them in the new system’s REST API in real time during transition. Implemented concurrent server-side logic using parallel streams. Collaborated with remote colleagues, including data schema experts and quality assurance teams.

Tech stack: Java v8, Spring Boot, older Spring Framework, Eclipse IDE, VSCode, Git, Shell Scripting, pgAdmin for PostgreSQL

Developed a Spring Boot utility that extracted structured SQL data from the client's Dynatrace installation and its ElasticSearch datastore using its REST API.

Tech stack: Java 8, Spring Boot, Eclipse IDE, MySQL, GNU/Linux, Shell Scripting

• - Main developer of custom web application for interfacing with DocuSign digital signature devices. Application customized and deployed to affiliate company Adacom and client JCC Cyprus (aqs-portal.adacom.com, trust.jcc.com.cy)
• - Developed a JSF/Primefaces front-end (main navigation page & job monitoring module) for the company’s in-house batch document generation system and gradually replaced most of the older Google Web Toolkit UI modules with similar JSF/Primefaces modules.

Tech stack: Java 7-8, Google Web Toolkit, SOAP & REST APIs, Spring Framework (MVC, Data, Security, Batch), JSF/Primefaces, Apache Tomcat, JBoss/Wildfly, XML, Apache PDFBox. Git, Jira, Multi-module Maven build scripts, Jenkins CI

Project-based contract work with public-private infrastructure, outsourcing, and digital transformation clients. Aggregate full-time experience: ~8 years. Selected Projects:

• - Benefits Science LLC : Developed proof-of-concept web and mobile apps in healthcare analytics, airport network delay modeling, nutritional planners; self-training in Java technologies and responsible for training entry-level new hires.
• - Nova-Wind (ex-Forthnet): Contributed to VMware Orchestrator early-stage test project
• - Public Power Corporation (Mining Division) : Developed a coal mining production data entry, tracking and reconciliation web application to improve data accuracy. Work involved extensive on-site requirements analysis meetings with engineers at the central offices and traveling to the coal mines for deployment
• - Public Power Corporation (Production and Efficiency Division): Participated in replacing a legacy MS Access reporting application with a desktop thick client application; updated Management Information System web portal with new reporting and visualization modules, including a custom Single Sign On (SSO) authentication mechanism with reverse proxy integration of JSP and ASP.NET modules

Tech stacks: dotNET 2-3.5 (VB.NET, WinForms, ASP.NET, SQLServer, Crystal Reports), Java 5-7 (Google Web Toolkit, JSP/JSF/Primefaces, Tomcat, WEKA, Pentaho, Jasper Reports), SCADA, Time Series Databases.
VMware VCP3 certification, DOATAP university degree equivalency examinations

• - Graduate Teaching Assistant (C Programming, Technical Writing), Virginia Tech, 2003-2005
• - Summer Intern, Sinartia Technologies (Athens, Greece), Undergraduate Thesis Project, 2002
• - Captain John's Crabhouse, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A., 1995-2003 [Summers Only]